problem with ImageFont.py

[marcoalicera]

When I tried to ru sg.draw_model(mymodel) I got the following error:

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IOError                                   Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-16-c8ed5de8abd8> in <module>()
      1 from swmmio.graphics import swmm_graphics as sg
----> 2 sg.draw_model(mymodel)

C:\Users\Test\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\swmmio\graphics\swmm_graphics.pyc in draw_model(model, nodes, conduits, parcels, title, annotation, file_path, bbox, px_width)
    111         if title: annotate_title(title, draw)
    112         if annotation: annotate_details(annotation, draw)
--> 113         annotate_timestamp(draw)
    114 
    115         #SAVE IMAGE TO DISK

C:\Users\Test\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\swmmio\graphics\drawing.pyc in annotate_timestamp(draw)
    206         size = (draw.im.getbbox()[2], draw.im.getbbox()[3])
    207         scale = 1 * size[0] / 2048
--> 208         fnt = ImageFont.truetype(config.font_file, int(20 *scale))
    209 
    210         timestamp = strftime("%b-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S")

C:\Users\Test\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\PIL\ImageFont.pyc in truetype(font, size, index, encoding)
    242 
    243     try:
--> 244         return FreeTypeFont(font, size, index, encoding)
    245     except IOError:
    246         ttf_filename = os.path.basename(font)

C:\Users\Test\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\PIL\ImageFont.pyc in __init__(self, font, size, index, encoding)
    131 
    132         if isPath(font):
--> 133             self.font = core.getfont(font, size, index, encoding)
    134         else:
    135             self.font_bytes = font.read()

IOError: cannot open resource

I should say that I have no admin rights on this machine and I won't have them

[aerispaha]

@marcoalicera, it looks like the default font is set in definitions.py on line 26 here. At first glance this looks like a hard coded bug. Drawing methods should have a fallback font or use a default font that is OS agnostic. Want to take a stab at fixing this?

More broadly, I don't like how configuration is handled. I like adopt a best practice for providing users access to certain config setting. Does anyone have any ideas or examples of best practices to that end?

[marcoalicera]

@aerispaha, I would like to help to fix it, but I have no idea how to start. I already had had a problem with the definitions.py, which was not part of my installation and I don not think I solved properly.

[aerispaha]

@marcoalicera, understood. I don't want to get too ahead of ourselves, but I feel like this issue stems from broader project-level set up that I'd like to address. For now, I can try to find time to debug this directly. Can you share a requirements.txt file so I can see exactly how your environment it set up?

You can run conda list -e > requirements.txt from a command line and attach the resulting file here.

[marcoalicera]

requirements.txt